When I set out to find my father, I was not being brave. I was acting out of fear or losing the only parent I ever had. They may want you to believe I was simple being brave, but anxiety makes more heroes than history would care to repeat.
NIKITA GILLSomedays I am more wolf than woman. And I am still learning how to stop apologizing for my wild.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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If we had no fears to master, how else would we grow?
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The world is not allowed to make a meal of you, girl. It is there for your consuming.
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And you say you are broken, but broken mirrors like you create the most beautiful patterns of light.
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And what if there are things inside you that are much too difficult to love and you wished you were someone else instead?
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Fearless already runs through your blood. Now do it justice.
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You have never forgotten how home was more than just a language you grew inside your mouth before you said it in a way your tongue bled.
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The ghosts of all the women you used to be are all so proud of who you have become, storm child made of wild and flame.
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The loneliest thing you can ever do is take very instance where you should grow and waste it by only thinking how could this happen to you?
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You are a dangerous collection of all my favorite things. An old soul, a heart of gold, and hands that make my body sing.
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Maybe living your truth will not make you happy all the time, but it will make you happy every day.
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Nothing makes her want to be less adventurous or give up her eternal search for something to quench her wanderlust.
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Not all girls are made of sugar and spice and all things nice. Some are made of witchcraft and wolf and a little bit of vice.
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You are not his princess; you are your own queen.
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Seek no homes in other people’s chests.
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Lies are often truth-shaped. They’re only containers you must turn inside out and shake till the truth tumbles out, wide eyed and confused, blinking in a light it never thought it would see.
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People talk about love like it is patient and kind. Love is also dark. It is ferocious and angry and destructive.
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Sometimes all it takes to help someone survive anything brutal are those six words: ‘None of it was your fault.
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Ghosts of the person you used to be are so proud of who you are, they live on inside you applauding you for living on despite your scars.
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Some loves come with an expiration date, like all things that are perishable this kind of loves rot.
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Tell your daughters how you love your body. Tell them how they must love theirs.
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That sadness that you do not speak of, that haunts you in the ache of midnight. Give it to me, I want to heal that.
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No one told me love could be a God of both living and dying. That girls who love girls do not just drown, they also float.
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What if I told you your damage doesn’t define you and the way you survive is no one’s damned business?
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There is an art in the emptiness of all natural things.
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Somedays I am more wolf than woman. And I am still learning how to stop apologizing for my wild.
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You have to choose between freedom and comfort. You choose freedom. Of course you choose freedom.
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